We’ve spent countless hours thinking about the effect of the economic downturn on Penn State. Our recent thoughts, and some older ones, have focused on the Penn State endowment. Recently, the scope of our endowment queries has expanded to include the Big Ten’s eleven schools. By compiling data from several sources, we have aggregated Big […]
President Obama has stated that compensation for executives at companies receiving stimulus, or bail-out, money will be capped at $500,000. Businesses aren’t the only ones receiving funds from the government in this stimulus package, so are universities; Graham Spanier, as of 2006, has a yearly salary of $545,016. Obama’s mandate does not affect university administrators, […]
Penn State was ranked #14 in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, which is run by the the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas in Spain. We beat a bunch of the Ivies (Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale), which is pretty sweet. MIT was ranked #1. The Big Ten was very well represented on the list. […]
In an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Bulletin, Thomas Shakely, founder of Safeguard Old State, discusses the effect of the currently debated stimulus package on higher education. Shakely argues that: this increase in taxpayer funding of higher education will not result in fundamentally better colleges or universities. Our universities and colleges will likely be less […]
United Students Against Sweatshops has been lobbying the university to suspend its contract with Russell Athletic for a long time now. You might remember this fall, they staged a study-in at Old Main to raise awareness about the issue. The USAS argument is simple: Russell was cited by the Workers Rights Consortium for closing down […]
Gavin Keirans (UPUA President), George Khoury (Council of Commonwealth Student Governments President), and Luke Pierce (IFC President) all addressed a crowd of approximately 100 students and community members at today’s Rally for Relief. The argument put forth by the student leaders was quite strong. It was, in short, that students at Pennsylvania’s state related universities […]